RES: a trip to North Korea

[Jim heartfield]

In message <200004250236.WAA21803 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover
<hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes
>> NK-style "self-reliance" is a disaster. On 
>> all but the most slavishly devoted accounts, the country is 
>> desperately poor and governed by a bizarre personality cult. 
>> Doug
>
>Last 'slavishly devoted account' I can recall was Wilfred Burchett's
>_Again Korea_ from late 1960s, a reliable report in its day...
>

There used to be a North Korean sponsored New Communist Party in
Britain, whose leader was Reg Birch, I think. Pretty turgid stuff,
mostly.
-- 
Jim heartfield